The last full week of my job in my year abroad is over. As I write this, a mere two days at school remain, and that really will be that.
The week was just a standard week really, with no real special events.
Monday, the seventh grade class was doing the Battle of Hastings.
Tuesday, I actually had a full day for once. Betty’s class were discussing question tasks, such as ‘You didn’t do that, did you?’, along with listening to a text on the CD about disappearing items in a classroom. The questions they did to this, were answered well.
The fifth grade class, meanwhile, were doing presentations based on their houses, following on from my lesson on my own house last week. They only made a few mistakes. Little things such as ‘I live in the second floor’ rather than ‘on’ and the like.
In the afternoon, Baerbel was taking Martina’s ninth graders. They were focussing on a few grammar mistakes that they’d made in their essays. They were asked to translate sentences from German to English correctly – their mistakes were corrected and all was well.
Wednesday was a short day for me – just Betty’s class in the morning, with a Nachhilfe class at 1pm. Betty’s second sixth grade class were doing the exact same as the one on Tuesday, with the exception that this would be my last lesson with them. We played a few games with them and they gave me a card at the end. Cute, really.
Thursday rolled around and the eleventh graders were in good fooling as usual. They were busy analysing poems in great detail (including all the associated gubbins such as rhyme structure and the like). They then had to summarise all of this, which they did well on.
Finally, Doris’ fifth grade class were busied with a few translations, along with scrambled letters and saying what Doris’ mimes were. Good fun!
I’ll be seeing most of these classes (except Wednesday’s groups) next week, so I’ll have one more time with them all. I’m looking forward to it!
